previously known as [cold][wet][durham], [dirty][grimy][london],[busy][shiny][toon],[frantic][crowded][south]
Is ten thirty and Ive only just left werk! This whole job thing is rubbish - though i have had a very interesting time - its still not worth the money!
Ive still not remembered what I was plannin to write about this morning either, whic is possibly more annoying. Will report in as and when or if I remmeber.
My god - i made a realisation last night - virtually everybody i work with is identical! No silly hair no tatoos - no piecings - same clothes - same musical aste - same ideas f what is “fun” - no concepts of what other people are thinking and why they might like it - no tolerance for anybody who wants to live their life i another way even if it doesnt interfere with their life.
How does the company expect to innovate and achieve when there is one mindset? I shall either corrupt these people from the inside - and run for the hills becuase theyre driving me made.
Ive just got one of these camera phones - and whilst I cn blog directly from it (though im working on it) its easy enough for me to upload from it - so heres some phonotos(asa im christening them) this weekend.
First the queue outside a halloween shop
And second - my mate tom the morning after he snogged a local celebrity (who is quite cute)!Magic stuff - shame my real camera has died - but a camera phone is quite handy.
Sleep Sex doesnt sound like a likely thing to me. sleep walking - yes - you just walk - but soliciting sex? I have trouble enough when Im awake!
The code im working on is taking forever - so a quick bit of blogging…
Things worth knowing…
1) Wisdom teeth hurt to have taken out
2) New shoes hurt for weeks
3) Blisters on toes take ages to heal. Really ages.
4) Hotels are lonely and poo
5) Swimming pools are cool.
6) No internet is definatly worse than slow internet
7) Offce politics are more scary than real politics.
Flirting is very hard to give up - and digital moderation is no help.
Wine, jam, fruit, all the good stuff? Check out this which includes a reciept for Garlic Wine, which I wont be trying out, but many that I will!
I am immersiably upset to here that John Peel has died.
Hes was one of this world finest indeviduals - and Im truely gutted. I hope his family are OK.
There was a lot of controversy in durham when they built some outdoor urinals in the streeet to stop pissed up people pissing in the burger kings doorway. It could only be a good thing in my opinion, but thesefunky belgian outside toilets are great - the last photo is basically what got put in in durham, only ours wasnt quite as cool.
UKBlogs Aggregator might be worth inspecting occationally
Ive made another discovery. I was reading on the bbcs news site that all the chldren growing up at the moment are loners and have no interpersonal skills - which might well be true, and t set me off thinking. Do I live most of my life virtually? I realised that yes, most of my time is spent on a computer, or using them, both at work and at home, and that most of my interpersonal communication is electronic, be that txtmsg, instant messanger or email. this started me worrying, becuase is very easy to loose touch with people when you only relate to them electronically, and also very easy to offend, flirt and seduce people electronically because ofte feeling of separation, thus solely relying on electronics to communicate means that you can, over the course of time only loose friends, not make them.
This scared the poo out of me. And then I realised that laely Ive been emailing more and more internet randoms (bloggers, journalists, site owners etc) nd Im getting people writting back to me. Thats definatly building interpersonal relationships.
So I dont care if Im quite solitary - the job results in that a bit (something whcih I intend to change asap) but I quite like my own company, and Im not losing touch with a lot of people (though it takes work)
Right - Im off shopping for shiny things and clothes. On my own. Or I might rng chris and see what hes up to.
ok - stream oof conciuous bloging in action…
i was just thinking that it wasnt worth opening my laptop to blog, when we were “involved in a fatality”. That is to say - my train hit somebody. They tell you this over the tanoy in the train-which is quite surprising.
I was just going to write about how, when you leave uni suddenly real life hits you like a kick in the teeth, and how its really quite scary that suddenly you are in charge of your own fate, which all seems kind of silly now.
Wes just gone through a platform, and apparently somebody when under the wheels. I presumed that wed gone over some rubbish or a piece of wood, and was glad that the train was ok, but to find out that it was a person is very odd. Theres a strange sense of community forming, with people phoning and texting to say theyll be delayed, and the really strange thing is that we all feel the need to tell somebody. Hell - Im writting this now, and will post it later when I get home.
people seem to be trying to guess how it happened - did he (she) jump off the playform, or off the birdge wed just gone under etc. Very strange.
The feeling when it happened is very odd. You can feel the train rumbling over something. I would have thought (in fact had thought, before I know what wed hit) that it couldnt be a person because the size and speed of a train would go through though a body like a knife through butter, but apparently not.
NOw a women is alking about what she saw going up the side of the train - she seems very excited about it. Im not sure she realises whats happened.
Somebody behind me is grumblin about the train announcers grammer! “If theres more information; when theres most information, there will be more information!” Tosser.
People seem to be worrying about the driver. Worrying about if the body went up over the train - or under the train. Apparently the dirver wouldnt have seen it becuase they focus 50 yards ahead. I suspect they do. I dont really want to think of it.
The same man seems to now be discussing tube stations and how they try and prevent this kind of stuff (the glass barriers etc).
I wonder how often the staff have to deal with this kind of thing?
Im debating striking up a conversation with the man next to me. I have a sneaking suspision that he works for our boys. Hes using a Blackberry - that might be a good route of getting conversation going. Oh - hes going for the notebook - looks lke its work as normal.
The girl oppesite me looks worried. And agitated. And arty. Shes going for the Apple book. Old style -chunky and white and a bit classic. Its very clean - so its either new to her - or very loved. Shes the only one of us without a thunking great laptop bag. I think she must have it in a shoulder bag. She goes for the music - from a cd - obviously a pre-mp3 girl.
Man next door has plugged in a wireless card! I wonder if hes got signal - or it it a Vodaphone dialup job? I suspect he has no security - ill have a poke at it in a minute when hes got booted up.
Girl opposite (i going to keep trying different spellings until one looks correct) is all dressed in black Ive just noticed. That adds to the arty effect. shes actually quite pretty too - though I have no idea of her age. No great signs of crowsfeet, so Im guessing that shes not that much older than me.
Man next door - seems to be using an RSA number generator. the only other place ive seem one used is Cootes online banking (virtually pointless i suspect - but looks cool). I think hes using it for the dial in - thus it must be an encrypted dialup.
17:16 08/10/2004
have decided to keep putting dates and times into this monologue.
Technology is coming into its own - people are phoning people in other trains - we now know that the trains behind us are being diverted, and somebody with a gps connection has worked out exacly where we are. Im not sure if any of this helps us at all - but its amazing how we are relying on it!
17:17 08/10/2004
please are now discussing! About ow much trouble theyre going to be in with their wife. At last people are laughing. I know my headphones are n y bag - and that my portable harddrive had hours and hours of muci on it - but i really cant be bothered to dig them out. Next time I will carry a small pair of headphones in my laptop bag.
17:19 08/10/2004
the sun is quietly setting- it looks like its going to be a lovely evening. Im not sure if I have time to get home, get changed, and get back into central london for this dinner this evening.
17:24 08/10/2004
people are now wondering about who it was. Funnily we are all talking about he - but we have no idea if it was a man or a women. For some reason I would (should I be forced to choose) prefer it to be a man. Theres something more wrong (if this is possible) about women harming themselves.
17:27 08/10/2004
Somebody is descriing seeing a man eject when his plane was upsidedown. the pilot had clipped a boat mast and he had to eject. Apparently the gyro-ejector seat fired him in the right direct - Im not sure how this happens - but apparently it does.
17:27 08/10/2004
theres are neally annoying tinny digital noise going on that I assumed was somebodies phone, but apparently its not - I think is must to a really shitty electroniic handheld game. Its switched beutifully (well - with a certain shitty elegence ) between several songs - oh when the saints etc. Its now stopped. Fabulous.
17:35 08/10/2004
in a couple of minutes we will be departing! Raised eyebrows and sighs all round. Arty girl is how eating a rice cracker - one of the boring quite with no added flavours - like sugarpuffs, but with all the fun removed!
17:36 08/10/2004
Ive just noticed that one guy here looks just like Dilbert! Position, funny typing pose - everything!
17:38 08/10/2004
fat women is excited that the driver has been seen leaving. I dont blame the poor man.
17:42 08/10/2004
Fucking hell - ive just been to the loo (and despite being stuck outside the door bacause I was pulling not pushing!) - and pople are leaning out of the carrages so see bit of someody being picked up! Increadible. One bloke is even leaning out of the window with a cameras! I prey hes a trainspotter and not a completely sick fuck.
17:44 08/10/2004
looks like were in for a hell of a sunset. The sun is just sinking slowly behind some trees and has taken on that wain yellow. Not blazing, just quietly sliding out of the way. Trains are starting to pass us. We are waiting for another driver apparently. The fat women thinks this is funny. I really hope Ive misjudged her and shes laughing about something else - or I really do find her dispcable. God - look at me - Ive become - judgemental!
17:49 08/10/2004
Arty girl is no wearing all black! She has on slightly faded purple trousers - a bit like pajarma bottoms. Quite flattering in a slightly “shady-chic” kinda way. I just phoned from a train - something Ive always promised that I woldnt ever do.
17:52 08/10/2004
Were moving. People are packing away all the technology that theyre unacked to fill the aukward (another word I can never spell) silence. I might have been typing for the last hour - but id like to think I could have filled the time with conversation if I wanted to. We almost go talking about wireless internet technology (aparently available on some gner train - must look that one up.)
17:54 08/10/2004
they appologised for us being late. how sweet and call of duty.
17:55 08/10/2004
were about to arrive - Ill sign off and upload this tomorrow.
Right - Im in need of a minor moan - so here it comes.
How do people actually life their life and do a 9>5 day job? Ok, so most of the time Im in to work before 9 (like, and I leave after 5 (like 6), and this means that I just want to go home, and eat, and sleep. Living in a hotel is not exacly ideal, but even so, my new creditcard has been sitting in a bank, waiting for me, for a week and I cant get to it! I leave work at 6, after the banks closed, and I arrive at 8, before the damned think has opened. At weekends Im not living in newcastle!
I really need to get something sorted.
… and my mind has gone blank as I walk sit down. As I walked in I was planning all this stuff in my head, but I got involved with a techie conversation as soon as I hit the office and the result is that Ive completely forgotten most of what I was going to say. The only thing I do remember is I was going to say how elegant tall girls in slightly fluted dark coloured pencil skirts are - though that was the most trivial of them.
God - this is annoying - ill note it down next time- or is this a good excuse to go and buy an iPaq?
Its 7:25am and ive been up since 6:45. Today was te day I broke te rules and was going to have a lie-in. Things conspired aganst me.
Ive moved into a shiny new flat, and its lovely, though spartan. I was going to keep it empty of stuff, but Im me, and it was never going to happen. On a trip to Ikea (more about that later - Ive rage about that one too!) I picked up and alarm clock - shiny wiht hammers and bells - perfect for waking up a man who sleeps through anything. Except it ticks very very loudly, so you cant sleep, and then didnt go off in the morning, and has no way to tell if its am or pm. Also It doesn stay wound fr very long, as Id have to wind and set it every evening. Bugger that - lets go back to using my new phone!
Except last night my phone decided to reset its time backard an hour. I think its probably got something to do with daylight saving time, but I dont know. Its definatly gone wrong that so sure, because I stumbled out of bed and showered at 6:45 this morning not 7:45. Id have left the house if i wasnt for checking my old phone too!
Still - nobody died - and theres worse happens at sea - though I cant understand how much worse it could be!
